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Ding in finish - my bad

#22
I put the first ding in my AVII Precision the other day. Neck pocket, underside, just chipped off when replacing the neck after an adjustment at the heel.

First of many I hope. I am looking forward to a nice patina as it ages.
 
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#23
Dbassmon said:
Go to you local hardware store, Lowes or Home Depot, get a furniture touch up stick with a color as close as you can get. A drop of stain, or brown sharpie will also work. Fill the hole with the touch up stick, put some crazy glue on top to seal. If you want to get nuts, wet sand the crazy glue with very fine 1000 grit sand paper, and polish with some compound. The ding will be damn near invisible.

I look at this ding as genuine relicing. There will be other dings, scratches and chips if you play the bass. The first one always feels bad but you are no longer worried about keeping perfect.... it is now perfectly flawed.
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Yeah, I hear you man and that’s kind of the way I’m leaning… Crap happens! If this thing is used like the tool it is, things are going to happen. It’s just like a ding on a new car, but once the first one happens and some time passes, it is what it is.

Again, it’s just because it’s the first one. I just bought the damn thing and it happens so stupidly. Can’t say I was on a stage playing in front of thousands of people head banging and ran into something! Ha ha.

I did use a Q-tip with some dark Murphy’s oil, but it didn’t do too much. I think some of the poly is sitting down in there so the wood won’t really soak it up. Plus some of the oil went under the poly where it kind of lifted up on the edge of the ding. It’s a weird thing maybe I need to pick it out some more and do the trick you said or what has been recommended, with like a brown stain/wood, touchup pen and some superglue.

Or… Leave it the way it is and it’s just the character of the bass! Natural relicking!
 
#24
I bought my acoustic guitar new in 1997. I brought it to an event with a few other musicians playing, and let a friend borrow it for a few songs (gotta show off the new toy, right?) Well, when he was finished, he politely went to put it back in the case, but in the process the lid of the case closed right on the top of my pretty acoustic, and the hardware for the case lock stuck right into the front of my guitar :mad:

You never forget your first :laugh:
 
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#27
This folkie lady I was recording years ago bought a brand new high zoot acoustic during our sessions and brought it to her retail job to show it off.

I guy she knew that had a parrot came in and they chatted.

Parrot flies over to the guitar, lands on it a BEAKS the franks and beans out of the headstock. Big crescent crunch munch into the coco bolo or whatever.

I did helpfully tell her that now she didn’t have to worry about that first find anymore.

It went over great! 👍🏼
 
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#28
NYgiant said:
Yeah, I was thinking about it but… I guess I could do it at another time. It’s not a huge deal, but I guess you can see the difference in the knobs. I don’t think anyone else would notice unless I pointed it out.

And yeah, you’re right… Don’t drop the freaking drill on it!! Ha ha.

The little nick in the finish is just that… But…. you know how it goes when you have a stupid accident…..it stands out.
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Color it as good as you can with one of those furniture touchup pencils.
 
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#30
Ah, the first ding. Now you can proceed to the next level.

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I'd probably find a stain that matches. Put a drop of super glue, a drop of stain and work it around with a toothpick. I wouldn't be expecting to totally fix it, but I'm sure I could get it to a point where it wasn't such an eye sore.
 
#34
I totally get the OP's desire to fix it, contrary to the opinions of some, to me a bass is NOT just a "tool", it's a playable work of art, and I like mine pretty. Some nicks and dents are inevitble, but learning a few basic touchup tecqniques, along with a reasonable standard of care, can keep an instrument looking good for a long time. I know they are valued for "mojo", but when I see a heavily (naturally) relic'd bass, I think "nobody gave a rat's a##, and beat on it".
 
#35
I also understand the desire (or compulsion) to fix my errors. And I like fixing things.

However, having done a few amateur drop fills that look worse than the original ding, I posit it’s a double whammy to damage a thing twice…

Don’t ask me how I know…
 

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